Remote control

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history of television in the U.S.

...for the first time consumers were able to store television programming and view it at their convenience. Around the same period, cable TV, with its increased array of stations and abetted by remote-control capability, ushered in the practice of “channel surfing.” Viewer choice and control increased dramatically with these technologies and would increase even more profoundly in the...

optical communication

...conditions has hindered development of free-space optical links for outdoor environments. A simple and familiar example of an indoor free-space optical transmitter is the handheld infrared
remote control for television and high-fidelity audio systems. Free-space optical systems also are quite common in measurement and remote sensing applications, such as optical range-finding and...

stage design history

...than mechanical, control to vary the level of magnetism in its iron core. While it was an improvement over the saturable core dimmer—because the electronic control allowed the dimmer to be remotely controlled—its control circuit needed almost daily maintenance to run properly. Theatrical applications of the magnetic amplifier dimmer lasted only a few decades; it was quickly...

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